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Symptom: You schedule a chkdsk before rebooting a Windows machine (can be Windows XP or any flavor of Server 2003, possibly others as well) it appears to run through the chkdsk successfully, then reboots again and continues the cycle, continuously running chkdsks on startup, but never getting up to Windows. Sometimes the Windows splash screen shows, sometimes not.

Power down and cold boot doesn’t change the behavior. Attempting to boot into Safe Mode also fails with the same behavior.

Cause: Unknown, but probably due to a failing chkdsk operation not removing the BootExecute reg value.

After entering the correct data, you MUST unload the Hive. To do so, select MyHive branch, and then in the File menu, choose Unload Hive. It’s important to note that you’ll need to select the MyHive branch first, before unloading it.

Quit BartPE and restart Windows. The machine should now boot up normally, skipping the chkdsk.